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Swimming as a brand SwimNetwork Share     The filling of the Olympic pools in London – with millions of litres - made worldwide news this week. The filling of the pool. Adlington wasn't there, and Phelps was not dragged across the proverbial pond for the festivities. Yet filling the pool was news. Big news, making the Google News front page, the BBC report, and CNN - to name only a few of news sources that carried it and bloggers who lifted it from news wires to spin into their own rant. Yes, swimming is back. Or did it ever leave? More Swimming West: The fight for UC Davis SwimNetwork Share
UC Davis swimming coach Peter Motekaitis sat inside his office on a recent day, mulling over the uncertain future of the program, when a pointed question unexpectedly got the better of him. What have you learned about your swimmers as they’ve gone through this? Motekaitis stayed silent for a brief moment, but he was unable to quell his emotions. More
Exercise proved to be a stress buster by a new study TopNews Share
Exercise has been credited to keep the body fit and healthy but a new study has revealed that it also lets a person stay away from depression and anxiety. A research programmed was conducted at the Anxiety Research and Treatment Program at Southern Methodist University at Dallas which revealed that it can act to be a therapy to get relief from depression and keeps it at bay More Swimmer ignores her pain to raise money for cancer patients The Baltimore Sun Share
On land, Viki Anders has some trouble getting around. She walks with crutches, the result of a foot injury and a subsequent condition called complex regional pain syndrome. But in the water, she swims like a dolphin. A few days shy of her 60th birthday, Anders eased herself into the pool at the McDonogh School in Baltimore,Md., and swam the butterfly for 1,500 meters, almost a mile. She did it to raise money for the Johns Hopkins Patient and Family Fund. It assists needy cancer patients and their families with expenses not covered by insurance during their treatment. More Four ways to reduce injury while weight training The Indianapolis Star Share
As weight training has grown in popularity over the past decade, so has the number of injuries. From 1990 to 2007, more than 970,000 people visited emergency rooms with such injuries. While males and youths, ages 13 to 24, accounted for the largest proportion of the injuries, girls and young women had the greatest increase in the number of injuries. That fact doesn't surprise Dawn Comstock, an associate professor in the Ohio State University College of Medicine and the author of a recent study on weight-training-related injuries. Young women today are more likely to participate in high school and collegiate sports, and weightlifting is often part of the training. More UNF reinstates women's swimming, diving WJXT Share
The University of North Florida is bringing back its women's swimming and diving program about two weeks after saying it would be discontinued. Last month, the school said it was eliminating the teams for financial and competitive reasons. Now, the school said it learned that eliminating the team could create issues of gender equity. More Poor sleep for obese adolescents Science Daily Share
Obese adolescents go to bed later and sleep less than their lighter contemporaries. This is the finding of a study published in the April issue of Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. More Useful tips on safe exercising during the coming summer Medical News Today Share
The summer is a great time for physical activity - be it playing a sport, an aerobic exercise routine, or just returning to that old jogging path. In this article, Dr. Andersen gives some tips that may help make your summer physical activity a more successful one. More |
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